Krista Griffin
A volume in Literacy, Language, and LearningSeries Editor: Wen Ma, Le Moyne CollegeMotivation to engage in reading is a consistent problem for students in general and boys inparticular. To solve this problem, we often seek answers from everyone but those we arehoping to motivate. We read the latest article on motivation and think we have finally come up with the recipe thatwill motivate all of the boys in our class. When it doesn’t work for everyone, we go back to the drawing board and trysomething else until we finally understand that all boys are motivated by different things.That is the basis of this book: nothing will work for ALL boys, but there are ways to equip teachers to find out how theboys in their classes are motivated. It provides them with a direction to go once they’ve established the needs of theirstudents and offers suggestions for how to meet individual motivational needs. Each chapter addresses a differentmotivational need, providing background information and practical classroom applications.
